math

What is up with kids' homework these days? Seems like my homework used to be with a 1-page report on an animal you like, or here is multiplication table of 6 questions you have to solve. My daughter is in advanced math and I can't even help her since last year. I have no clue what it even means...

I've been helping tutor Calculus, of a sort, for a co-worker friend of a company I used to work for.  She is in her 40's doing a Finance major. Now, I majored in Math with a 3.55 average, but wow, I don't have the patience to sit down and solve these types of problems anymore.  I started with...

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